Posted on June 23, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Sangita Verma, co-founder
and CEO of TAG Networks–a company that has developed a
games-on-demand service, called TAG, that integrates with existing
VOD infrastructures and supports community features and multi-device
interaction–discusses the company’s trial deployment of the service
with Time Warner Cable in Dothan, Alabama [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews | Tagged: cable, games, sarnoff, tag, tetris, time warner cable, vod | No Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
–Signs Three-Year Extension of its Deal with Major League Baseball
At the NCTA Cable Show in New Orleans last month, Portland,
Oregon-based interactive TV authoring solutions company,
Ensequence, and home-shopping company, HSN, revealed that
Ensequence is now developing an ETV/EBIF version of HSN’s live
ITV shopping service, “Shop by Remote.” The CableLabs ETV/EBIF
standard is designed to enable bound interactive TV [...]
Filed under: Content, Technology | Tagged: ensequence, hsn, major league baseball, mlb, shop by remote, tcommerce | No Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company Offers Multiscreen Apps for US Open Golf, French Open Tennis
–Expands its DISH Decision 2008 Application
Satellite TV provider, DISH Network (formerly EchoStar), has signed
an interactive TV advertising agreement with NBC Universal that will
see it providing interactive trigger capabilities to the latter’s 14
television networks and channels and to 10 NBC owned-and-operated
TV stations. The capabilities will allow [...]
Filed under: Content, Technology | Tagged: Advertising, dish, echostar, french open, golf, nbc, nbc universal, tennis, us open | No Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
–Extends ITV Application-Development Deal with BT Vision
Dublin, Ireland-based interactive TV advertising and authoring
solutions provider, emuse; Australian pay-TV provider, Foxtel (uses
OpenTV middleware); and Australian pay-TV advertising sales group,
Multi Channel Network (MCn) have formed an exclusive, long-term
partnership that designates emuse as the “preferred” technology
provider for interactive advertising on the Foxtel platform. The
partnership–which will run for an initial [...]
Filed under: Advertising, Content, Technology | Tagged: digital, interactive tv, Advertising, emuse | No Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
DVD’s-by-mail company, Netflix, has teamed with streaming media
specialist, Roku, on a $99.99 set-top box, dubbed The Netflix Player by
Roku, that allows Netflix subscribers to stream a selection of movies
and TV shows from Netflix’ library directly to their TV sets. At launch,
around 10,000 movies and TV episodes are available through the
Player, which can be purchased from [...]
Filed under: Technology | Tagged: digital tv, netflix, roku, set-top, stb | No Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
At the NCTA Cable Show in New Orleans last month, Paul
Allen-owned Digeo announced that its sister company, Charter
Communications, will begin deploying its new dual-tuner Moxi Cable
HD DVR 3012 in the third quarter (note: the deployment is expected to
begin in St. Louis, MO). This represents the first order and deployment
of Digeo’s second-generation box, which features the [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
At the NCTA Cable Show in New Orleans last month, Seagate
Technology launched a series of storage products, dubbed Seagate
Showcase, for use with DVR’s, and also announced that the new
product line has been designed for compatibility with Motorola’s
eSATA-capable HD DVR set-top portfolio. According to the company,
the new drives will initially have storage capacities of up to [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
–Demo’s What it Claims is World’s First Common Interface Plus App
Bristol, UK-based digital TV software provider, Ocean Blue, has
released what it describes as “early details” about a new design tool it is
developing, which it claims will enable fast, visual development of
MHEG applications for broadcast to set-top boxes and integrated
digital television sets. Dubbed Triton, the new, [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
–NBC Universal in Deal to Use Company’s OpenTV Participate Platform
–Brazilian Cable Operator Taps Company to Power HD PVR Service
–Company’s EclipsePlus Campaign Management Solution Now Available
–STMicroelectronics Joins Company’s Rapid Porting Program
Interactive TV software provider, OpenTV (note: voting control of the
company was acquired last year by content-protection specialist, the
Kudelski Group), has generated a fair amount of news [...]
Filed under: Industry, Technology | Tagged: brazil, hd, kudeliski, middleware, nbc, nbc universal, opentv, pvr | No Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
Broadband TV infrastructure company, Narrowstep (note: the
company’s flagship telvOS technology has been used to power a
number of high-profile broadband TV services, including the ITV
Local service of UK commercial terrestrial broadcaster, the
Independent Television Network; it recently announced that it was
shifting the focus of its sales and marketing efforts away from smaller
niche content providers–which it says [...]
Filed under: Industry, Technology | Tagged: digital tv, internet tv, narrowstep, on stream, on-demand, vod, web tv | 1 Comment »
